Teams from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta (the owner of Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms) and other leading technology groups have worked together to develop a passkey, unique to each user, that can unlock apps and provide access to websites, eventually across all platforms. Passkeys were launched by Apple yesterday in the latest version of its operating system, iOS16.


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The Register: AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you.

AWS is making multi-factor authentication (MFA) mandatory for privileged users, specifically management account root users…

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IT Brew: FIDO Alliance announces identity-proofing certification

FIDO’s Face Verification Certification tests for security, liveness, and bias in remote identity verification technology…

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Find Biometrics: ID Talk: Passkeys, Standards, and Selfie Certification with FIDO’s Andrew Shikiar

Andrew Shikiar, FIDO’s Executive Director and CEO, discusses key topics in authentication and identity security…

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